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I currently have all seven paperbacks; unfortunately, I started off with the typo-ridden reprint of the first book that came out after the series began. I don't have the Dunk and Egg collection yet, because it's currently not cheap in dollars to order from Amazon and is still to come out in the UK. I also have a House Greyjoy sigil T-shirt, which I believe I rock. I can't find my camera at present, but I was thinking of putting a thread up sometime for people to show themselves off in their regalia, or maybe it can be done here.

I've seen some self-designed Bolton T-shirts on the 'Net which I can't imagine anyone wearing, but a bunch look incredibly cool.

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Anyone have any experience with those Brodart book covers? Looking to get some for my ASoIaF books. The books are all 9.5" tall, so I'm guessing I should go with the 10" ones just to be safe? Are they pretty easy to use?

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I'd been planning to buy the book of maps, but it's ridiculously expensive for just a bit more than you get in the books.

Iain I do believe the map book is actually quite amazing. It is most definitely not ridiculously expensive its actually quite a steal for what you actually get. It is not so much a book as a collection of twelve full poster size maps. It only costs $25 and you are basically getting 12 posters. They all look fantastic and some are quite interesting. Amazon has the book for $25

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I'll wait till it goes down in price. I'm a bit of a nerd for constantly looking up and feeling like I have to memorise locations. Doing this has even put me steps ahead at times with plot events going on. My local bookstore sells the thing for about 30 odd pounds.

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I would be very interested to hear people talk about why they choose the particular things to collect. I have been making coins for George under license since 2003. It's confusing to me why it is that the Faceless Man coin has seemingly gone viral, and yet the other coins I've done for the series... some of them very nice indeed, as well as very reasonably priced... seem to languish.

I recognize that I may have a different view of things. Even as a child I was intensely interested in coins and I always tried to see detail in coins shown in films. And so for me... the coins of a realm are the thing that forms the most basic tactile experience that creates a sense of place. And it was always the sense of place that intrigued me about coins. I don't rate as a "coin collector" in the usual way. I prefer worn and weathered coins over fresh new-looking ones, and enjoy imagining the story that the coin could tell. And so ten years ago, when I started making Westerosi coins for George, it was with the goal in mind of creating the immersive sense-of-place. It's easy to come up with ideas... not so easy to turn them into actual pieces of metal. But with a dozen things on the list now, I think we've done pretty well and the coins have a very high 'awesomeness' factor.

But I realize that not everybody's brain is wired the same as mine. I find it hard to understand why more fans are not buying the non Faceless-Man coins...

Is it the numbers? Do I make too many of each?... or too many different?

Is it the designs? Do you imagine the coins different?

Is it the size? Are they too small to suit modern tastes?

Is it the degree of tie-in of a coin to specific book/film people and events?

...so that there's little interest in coins of old long-dead kings?

Is it because I still haven't made a Dragon coin yet?

Is it the cost? Are they too expensive? Or... too cheap to seem like they could have value?

Is it because we missed the "h" in "morghulis" there for a while?

Is it because Instead of having "limited editions" I keep the same coin going, but keep track of the die types?

Personally I have bought two of your coins, the faceless man coin and the silver stag. I would imagine those may be your best selling two. First the faceless man coin is clearly anyones first choice as it is quite a famous item in the books and not really used for purchasing as normal coins. Also everyone loves Arya. The silver stag is just mentioned so often that I chose that as the second coin. If the golden dragon had been available I would definitely have gone for that. That may be the most talked about coin I think you should create one of real gold for people like me to buy and maybe some plated for the general buyers. That would be a favorite. The rest of the coins are just not mentioned that often

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Thanks for the comments Reek, and also for your purchases. So it's mostly to do with what is specifically mentioned in the books? I guess what I am trying to do is to create the mix of coinage that would exist in the pockets and purses of ordinary folk in the story. A description of the specific coins someone would carry in this place or that place is not really part of the story, but they have to exist in support of the tale.

Yes dragons are on the drawing boards! George has decided on quite a large coin though... a full 1/2 troy ounce of gold. So there will also be brass ones. No schedule for when those might be available yet... still in the sketching phase.

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I'm thinking on getting the 2002 AGoT hardcover reissue with the Jon Snow/Ghost painting on the cover. Anyone know what would be a good price? As far as I know they aren't too rare, but they are OOP. Surprisingly they are hard to come by on eBay. There is one up now with a starting bid of $75, but it includes a signed bookplate. I already have the US 1st edition of AGoT with the silver foil cover, but I just think the Jon Snow cover looks pretty sweet, plus it matches ACoK and ASoS. Any thoughts?

I would try abebooks but I read a bunch of reviews about the site and most of them were negative (damaged items, extremely slow shipping, etc.), so I'd rather not chance it.

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All books including first three dunk and egg in legends legends2 and warriors.

Nice collection, I'd love to have Robert's war hammer. I'm in the process of acquiring the books containing the Dunk & Egg stories, just picked up a 1st edition 'Warriors' pretty much in mint condition for $1.99 off eBay. Hopefully I can get the rest that cheap. :D

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Creating this list has made me realize that I have a larger collection than I realized, and yet I still want more:

- The first four books MMPB

- ADwD hardcover

- All the eBooks

- GRRM Signed 'Captain of the Guard' chapbook.

- Legends (for The Hedge Knight)

- Faceless Man Coin

- Eddard Stark silver half-stag

- 2 calendars

- Art Book vol. 1

- Game of Thrones comics, all the ones that have been released so far

- Game of Thrones graphic novel vol. 1

- Lands of Ice and Fire book

- Westeros Map poster

- GoT Season 1 Blu-Ray (Season 2 will be delivered tomorrow)

That's all that I can think of. I really want to get some clothing, a house banner (probably an unofficial one because I HATE the HBO ones), maybe a sword or two, some more coins from ShirePost (including another Faceless Man one that is drilled that I can put on a leather necklace and wear), the board games (even though they'd just be for decoration because no one i know is nerdy enough to play with me), I really want the graphic novels for the Dunk and Egg stories too but they're ridiculously over priced.